We are just a few in this forum now, but qualified ones, though. I would like to hear your opinion on this. I am a bit away of this universe, I could not build a PC strong enough to run most of this kind of game. This year I could install a Win10 in my Macbook so at list some of Horror Survival of this decade I can finally play - even with some difficulties. I will not be able to buy and play all has been made under Silent Hill influences, so I am trying to select a few with my faulty flashlight.

The last one I played was Alan Wake on Steam. I bought even before my Windows were working, since it was the sunset for it (now or never moment). It was disappointing, and the motivation of this post. The game make a promise that is not fulfilled. Me and many analysts see the strong influences of the franchise right from the beginning, but in the middle we have that feeling... and at the end we have just a cliché and opened questions for DLCs. I didn't find a deep analysis for the ending, maybe there isn't one because there is no deep at all, and this is valid for a lot of other games. Some of these games are still good to play, as Alan Wake, others are really bad developed, some are expansive or need an expansive PC to play, so it is better to make a selection of where to put our money and time. Another example is Dread Out that got a lot of complains about the Windows version and it is unplayable at all in macOS version.

Finally, I am also asking because there is a lot of games in development right now with the light (or darkness) of Silent Hill, can we be hopeful, or the past is showing that a SHSS will be a black perl?

^ I am with "Very Rare" choice too. I remember Amnesia, a well produced game that works hard on psychological elements to obtain disturb, fear and tension. It does not go so deep inside the characters but still can create a story "by pieces" as the background.

Many games producers make confusion with quality and game genre. A beautiful full detailed HD image is not enough, as monsters as zombies won't generate Horror Survival by itself, nor even fear. Everything got to work together synchronized to generate the expected effect. In these games, glitches, unstable frame rate, clichés, etc. will ruin quickly the experience.

Nothing really fills Silent Hill's boots properly (in my experience so far). There's a ton of great horror games out there but as a true spiritual successor? Not yet. But I also may have not yet played it either.

^ This is interesting. In the pt page, it is listed as survival horror, but in the en version, it is action-adventure. Usually, the en versions are more complete and reliable, but this is a basic error. Maybe I am underestimating Brazil, there is a reason for Ideo Kojima coming here...

I've been trying Outlast and Layers of Fear. As I am enjoying Outlast, I am not please with Layers of Fear. I had no luck with Unity games so far, all full of bugs, mostly platform bugs, even some ugly ones as allowing notices when playing - brakes the mood badly! Also both have similar graphics quality, but Outlast runs really better. Unlikely I will buy another Unity game again!

I remember saw it in a list of PS2 horror survival games, but got no good reviews average, than I gave up buying it. Dit I miss it? Now it costs more than a PS2... I don't like to download games to test before to buy, but sometimes the reviewers screw me, specially with this genre of game.

I watched a no commentary lets play of it. But if that isn't your fancy I suggest cheating with Action Replay. The gameplay is so infuriating at times, I actually actively encourage cheating/hacking the game just because the story is so beautifully done.

Tabris wrote:I only played maybe half of Rule of Rose (I think?). It's one of the most conflicting fucking gaming experiences of my life.

On one hand, it's extremely beautiful in so many ways. It has a lotttt going for it when it comes to the 'artsy' aspect of it. I was in a constant state of wanting to see what next.

On the other, the gameplay is so astoundingly terrible that I find it fucking near unplayable. I kind of hated playing it sometimes.

I find myself wanting to give it another go but I always remember the combat and some of the fights bleh.

To balance narrative with gameplay is a hard job - specially for horror games. If you have to retry many times, specially if you have to replay a long path before be able to try again. I miss the gameplay of SH1 when playing SH2 or SH3, but I know could ruin the experience, probably. I think SH4 fails in this balance.

Any developer must have this balance issue in mind when trying to succeed Silent Hill.

Playing old games (even after SH is already old) is different, there is some anxiety of going ahead because it's a finished game already by the market. I don't have the same patience as a new game that everybody is exploring at the same time as I. I started "The Void", a beautiful Russian game and now I am reading some guides, better than cheat the game and lost the narrative. It seems a difficult game as they say, but worth the efforts - it's a different game with a nice soundtrack that I already add to my library!

I've not really played many games that I could say were like Silent Hill, but that changed after playing The Evil Within 2. There's so much in that game that just screams of Silent Hill. I'm sad that Forgotten Memories: Alternate Realities may never reach the PS4, as that looked like a very worthy copy type game.

I heard good things about Evil Within 2, that is better than the first, remember The Last Of Us but with more horror and some open places to explore, etc.. Sounds interesting!

I remember the Team mention that open scenery don't mach with the strong narrative of Silent Hill games, and it's really rare in the classic four games. But I have my doubts, not sure if this is definitive for the spirit of Silent Hill.

Oh, yeah. I mean, if you like Resident Evil, or anything horror related at all in general, you'll love The Last of Us. The Evil Within 2 is a brilliant game, too. Although for newcomers, they ought to at least play the first game, as the story will otherwise be mighty confusing. It took me a while to get the idea of the whole 'STEM' thing, and I also think the game is a bit of a copy of the plot of Silent Hill: Origins. You'll know what I mean if you play it!

Deer Rest FOA wrote:Oh, yeah. I mean, if you like Resident Evil, or anything horror related at all in general, you'll love The Last of Us. The Evil Within 2 is a brilliant game, too. Although for newcomers, they ought to at least play the first game, as the story will otherwise be mighty confusing. It took me a while to get the idea of the whole 'STEM' thing, and I also think the game is a bit of a copy of the plot of Silent Hill: Origins. You'll know what I mean if you play it!

Haha, as soon as I saw that seen I thought the same thing about pulled elements from Origins.

And as I walked through the game what really struck me was the similarities between the contrasts of Sh1 and SH2 in comparison to TEW1 and TEW2.

I mean the 1st instalments of both game were kind of confusing for new comers to the franchise. They were obscure while comparing to other survival horror games.

And tehedifferences between SH1 and SH2 and TEW1 and TEW2 have the same sort of feeling. I kind of look at it with an overall sense of both franchises seem to have had the same overall direction.